STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 52nd Legislature (2009)

SENATE BILL 772	By:	Johnson (Constance)

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to corrections; prohibiting certain construction and expansion of private prisons; granting certain exceptions for construction or expansion of private prisons; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 563.5 of Title 57, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Every private prison contractor operating in this state on the effective date of this act that does not hold a design-build contract fully executed by the Department of Corrections and approved by the Legislature or a one hundred percent (100%) occupancy contract for housing of Oklahoma prisoners shall be prohibited from expanding, constructing, modifying or building any additional space or structure in the vicinity of or in connection with the existing facility or any new private prison facility, regardless of whether the private prison facility currently contracts for housing of inmates for the federal government, another state jurisdiction, or this state.
Every private prison contractor entering this state for the purpose of conducting new business on and after the effective date of this act without having entered into a design-build contract fully executed by the Department of Corrections and approved by the Legislature or without having a one hundred percent (100%) occupancy contract for housing of Oklahoma prisoners shall be prohibited from establishing, operating, constructing, building, or purchasing any private prison facility within this state.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

52-1-369	NP	1/14/2009 2:38:41 PM